Carlos182's Astor Grey GTi-6

[puglove]

sorry to butt in on the project thread but have you got any idea what long life want to chop and weld a new tip?

[Curt]

[Niall]

sorry to butt in on the project thread but have you got any idea what long life want to chop and weld a new tip?

i paid £30 for a new one on mine

[Scott]

Changed the wishbones today...or at least tried to What a fail that turned out to be, although it was in a way fairly lucky. First off, massive thanks to Sam for all of his help today, I hope my bacon and egg rolls, and proscuitto pasta made up for it! Anyway, when fitting the wishbone Sam noticed that one of the pbushes on the Meyle HD wishbone had come apart and literally pulled off of the suspension arm. This meant we had to go and get a new one as temporary fix, but I'll be sending those back to Meyle for a replacement as they're only 2 months old! We got the wishbone fitted, but failed to notice a pretty vital component...that the ball joint was 16mm instead of 18mm. Massive fail on our part not noticing when we fitted it, but also I didn't even ask Dum-dum when I bought them, I just presumed that Meyle only made 18mm wishbone/balljoints. I drove about 30 yards down the road to turn around, and luckily was taking it extremely easy and noticed something was wrong straight away. Turned around, and the hub fell off the balljoint! Again, luckily as I was going slowly the only damage was that the bumper has been knocked slightly out of line. We ended up having to jack the car up in the middle of the road on a junction and change the wishbone!

It's going to need some overnight parts from Japan for the MOT tomorrow. Okay, I tell a lie, they're coming from Bournemouth. Fooby's had a set of Meyle HDs for some time now but not fitted them, and they're actually 18mm though he needed 16mm. He's being awesome and bringing them up tomorrow as he's working nearby, so we'll get them fitted hopefully and get it MOTd tomorrow afternoon. He's having the 16mm ones once I've had the broken one replaced under warranty.

[samass]

Is fooby helping you tomorrow? "helping"

fun day! SO relieved nothing actually broke on your car dude!

[Curt]

Lucky indeed! Could have been a lot worse...

[Scott]

He's helping by bringing them to me...

Yeah Curt definitely - so so lucky I was travelling slowly and also that it went forwards just into the arch liner, rather than into the wing or anything

[samass]

mmmmmm pasta.... shoulda had seconds

oh, also, fastest wishbone change ever?

[Curt]

Yeah even more so then. Like when my bottom ball joint snapped on my DT when I pulled into my drive... although it did push the wing in at the back

[Niall]

faggots! how can you not notice that the balljoint went in easier than a thumb in grants arse?

[lewisdmz]

Must say i'm liking the wheels, very purposeful.

[Jonny81191]

faggots! how can you not notice that the balljoint went in easier than a thumb in grants arse?

Was wondering about this TBH.

[samass]

I'll take the blame for that, seeing as I'm the one that put it in, all I can say is, my bad. Don't know why I didn't question how easily it slipped in.


(something that should be asked more frequently..... )

[Niall]

Paint it Astor and your ontop winner Scott.

[Scott]

It's missing turinis though...

[Niall]

They will fit with a bit of liquid metal!

[Ed Doe]

I've got less and less faith in the meyle units these days.... I think I need to get mine of and have a check at some point...

[Niall]

My "worry for no apparent reason" comments are really getting old now

EFA

[Scott]

The car passed its MOT! I'm really relieved, I was a little stressed that it might fail on something as I don't have a lot of time to fix it at the moment, let alone with the weather and how bloody cold it is. Feeling much better about it now, and it least it means I can crack on with doing the other bits and pieces that have been bought but not fitted...I've got a quickshift and solid rear beam mounts that I've had for some time now, among a load of other things. I'm also finally going to be giving the car a clean tomorrow! It's not been done since July so it desperately needs it

[Tallguy_2]

What are the meyle units then? Pattern or uprated

[Scott]

They're supposed to be uprated, but the bush had started to come away from the centre, and also had worked itself loose to the point that Sam was able to remove the old bush by moving it gently...

[samass]

yeah, I normally have to try a lot harder to pull it off...

[Matt]

The car passed its MOT! I'm really relieved, I was a little stressed that it might fail on something as I don't have a lot of time to fix it at the moment, let alone with the weather and how bloody cold it is. Feeling much better about it now, and it least it means I can crack on with doing the other bits and pieces that have been bought but not fitted...I've got a quickshift and solid rear beam mounts that I've had for some time now, among a load of other things. I'm also finally going to be giving the car a clean tomorrow! It's not been done since July so it desperately needs it

So under all that dirt it might be black after all?

[Niall]

They're supposed to be uprated, but the bush had started to come away from the centre, and also had worked itself loose to the point that Sam was able to remove the old bush by moving it gently...

No there not. Meyles are not uprated. They are high quality OEM equivalents. You will probably find when yours were fitted to chris' car, they were not fitted correctly and thats why one of them is damaged. Hopefully you will get a replacement!

[Poodle]

The meyle hd range is being sold as uprated, ive bought standard meyle ones for 90 quid the pair before.

[Niall]

The meyle hd range is being sold as uprated, ive bought standard meyle ones for 90 quid the pair before.

Really? I was always told they were just standard stuff!

[Dum-Dum]

Meyle standard stuff is just good quality pattern parts, meyle HD is uprated (the HD stands for heavy duty)

[devils_fuel]

if those wheels were banded and in carbon fibre wrapped....porn

[procta]

looking good there scott

[Pompey306mark]

Meyle hd are suppose to be up rated.

Might be the way they were fitted before, as everytime kris takes my front wheels off, he is impressed mine are still going strong.

Would have to check but I am sure it's moving on for two years they have been on the car. It's been a year and 4 months since the engine change and they were on before that.